Eleanor of Aquitaine Author:Curtis Howe Walker In the twelfth century, the medieval age of sieges, crusades and troubadours, there is no more brilliant figure than that of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Queen of France for fifteen years, and Queen of England for fifty more, she was also the mother of two powerful monarchs, a brilliant scholar, and a lover of beauty and the arts who elevated women to ... more »the pedestal of romantic love. A noble epitome of the century in which she lived, she was truly one of the greatest women of all time.« less